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My sister Rosa

When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.

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Main Author: Larbalestier, Justine (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Soho Teen, [2016]
Subjects:
Brothers and sisters > Young adult fiction.
Psychopaths > Young adult fiction.
Australians > United States > Young adult fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Young adult fiction.
Suspense fiction > Young adult.
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Summary:When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
Physical Description:312 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781616956745
1616956747
Author Notes:Justine Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. She is a young-adult fiction author and is best known for the Magic or Madness trilogy: Magic or Madness, Magic Lessons and Magic's Child. Her other works include Liar, How to Ditch Your Fairy, and The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. In 2014 her title, Razorhurst, won the Aurealis Award in the Horror Novel category. This title also made the Inky Awards 2015 shortlist and the Queensland Literary Awards 2015 shortlist in the Young Adult category. She will be at the Melbourne Writers Festival Schools Program 2015. My Sister Rosa, published January 2016, won the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, Young adult fiction.

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